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Progress in Organic Coatings 54 2005 73–77 Short communication Aerodynamic evaluation of an internal epoxy coating in nature gas pipeline Xiao-Hong Yang a,?, Wei-Ling Zhu a , Zhu Linb , Jian-Jun Huo c a Biotechnology Chemical Engineering Department of Wuhan Polytechnic University, Hankou, Wuhan, PR China b Research Institute of Engineering Technology of CNPC, Tianjin, PR China c National Turbulence Laboratory of Beijing University, Beijing, PR China Received 9 August 2004; accepted 29 April 2005 Abstract An aerodynamic evaluation method for internal epoxy coating in natural gas pipeline was presented by introducing the friction factor of ?owing gas. Numerically calculated values of this factor from the Colebrook-White equation were compared with model experimental and ?eld comparatively tested data. They show good agreement between the numerical and experimental results. Therefore, it proves that the Colebrook-White equation is available for evaluation of the epoxy coating in natural gas pipeline. With this method, the friction factors show 7 a notable relative decrease rate up to 25% at Reynold’s number of 4.32 × 10 for a pipe diameter of 1016 mm due to the application of the internal epoxy coating. ? 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Epoxy coating; Friction factor; Aerodynamic evaluation; Gas pipeline 1. Introduction Referring to material, most gas pipeline engineer prefers epoxy coating for its excellent adherence [7–9]. As a result, In oil and gas industry, there is always a strong trend to the epoxy coating has been applied as the ?ow ef?ciency reduce the costs of gas transmission pipeline. Up to now, internal coating to a large number of natural gas transmis- numerous studies have been carried out for this goal and some sion projects [10]. With increasing use of this internal epoxy effective methods have been invented. The use of internal coating, it is more and more important to kno